Strategic Merchandising FP&A Manager

Lowe's Companies, Inc.; Mooresville (NC); On-site; USD 95,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Lowe's Companies, Inc. is seeking a Manager of Finance at its Mooresville, NC headquarters to partner with senior leaders, drive forecasting, budgeting, and long-range planning, and mentor junior staff.

The role focuses on delivering proactive analytics, robust financial models, and actionable insights to optimize performance across the organization. In this role you will influence strategic decisions, collaborate across functions, and present findings clearly to executives, leveraging data from

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Accounting, Finance, Economics, or related field, or equivalent years of experience.
• 6 years experience in finance or analytical role in public company or accounting
• 1 year experience with financial forecasting or analytical modeling
• Experience in structuring and writing formal documents, developing and delivering group presentations, project planning, and/or cross-functional collaboration
• Previous experience in FP&A, Corporate Finance or Corporate Accounting
• Experience with Microsoft Office tools (e.g., Word, PowerPoint, Excel)

Responsibilities

• Develops Senior Specialist, Analyst, and Senior Analyst talent by managing and prioritizing day-to-day workload and direction; reviewing work output and providing feedback; coaching and mentoring on strengths and opportunities.
• Acts as a subject matter expert (SME) and thought leader on respective team.
• Facilitates the financial forecasting and planning processes with functional partners and business units that result in quarterly forecast updates, annual plans, and long-range plans (2-3 years).
• Collaborates across the business to provide root cause analysis and actionable insights based on financial and non-financial data to functional partners and business units.
• Communicates financial and non-financial analysis and insights to leaders by preparing analyses through leveraging multiple data sources; identifying complete, consistent, and actionable insights & recommendations; translating insights into clear, understandable themes.
• Completes work assignments by applying up-to-date expertise in subject area; leveraging an understanding of policies, data, and resources to support projects or initiatives; collaborating cross-functionally to solve business problems; identifying, recommending, and implementing ways to address improvement opportunities.
• Develops business cases for key initiatives and major programs by creating robust financial models, tied to a program’s (or initiative’s) strategic narrative; identifying risks to the organization and engaging the business owner in risk mitigation and trade-off conversations; identifying and measuring key trigger points (metrics) that will provide business insight into an initiative’s success (leading and final indicators).

Skills

Financial analysis

Forecasting

Cross-functional collaboration

Presentation skills

Mentoring

Education

Bachelor's degree in Business/Accounting/Finance/Economics

Tools

Microsoft Excel

Microsoft PowerPoint

Microsoft Word

Job description

Lowe's Companies, Inc. is seeking a Manager of Finance at its Mooresville, NC headquarters to partner with senior leaders, drive forecasting, budgeting, and long-range planning, and mentor junior staff.

The role focuses on delivering proactive analytics, robust financial models, and actionable insights to optimize performance across the organization. In this role you will influence strategic decisions, collaborate across functions, and present findings clearly to executives, leveraging data from